Discussions help you to engage learners in both broad and deep discussions by making navigation easy, allowing threaded views, and adding the human element by adding video or audio with the Media Recorder. Discussions can also be created as an assignment for grading purposes, or simply serve as a forum for topical and current events. Discussions can exist within student groups, can allow "liking" and sorting, and even have responses hidden from students until they have contributed to the conversation.

When a discussion is created as a graded assignment, the Canvas SpeedGrader™ isolates each student’s comments from the thread and combines them into one easily readable view for grading, then syncs your grading with the gradebook.

Helpful Guides

Things to Try

Create a Discussion
Reply to a discussion using text
Add images, audio, or video
Modify the settings to allow for liking or grading